Quotes About Authority

It's part of, I guess, one of the harder parts about coaching is you have to make some tough decisions.

One of the things I learned at the Naval Academy and the Marine Corps is we have to make tough decisions.

Commanders-in-chief make really tough decisions.

I'm used to being the big tough guy, the bodyguard type.

I mean, don't get me wrong, being ref is a very tough job - managing 10 of the best athletes in the world. At the same time, I think there is way too much ego from their standpoint.

It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.

I've never found it any tougher being a woman than a man, but I've always been the boss.

My dad was the toughest man I've ever known in my life. He intimidated me. he was my Master Sergeant.

There were no tourists. Beer was illegal. There was only government television and no television on Thursdays or in the summer.

I don't cover golf tournaments anymore - I preside over them.

You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. There is no 'bosses.'

It seems appropriate that the author of '1984' was a British citizen. George Orwell must have seen how easily the great British public's lamb-like disposition toward its leaders could be exploited to create a police state.

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

The Democrats have essentially decided to move more toward central power, control of just about every aspect of our culture and economy.

Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters.

I was born into a very religious family where everything was about setting the right example for the community and having to obey orders blindly. I felt that everyone was growing up in the world, except me. This is probably one of the reasons why I had such a rebellious attitude towards any form of authority.

Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in.

An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First Amendment in my country.

There is this place called the Tower of London and I think if I wrote about any Royal figure as recent as the 20th Century I might end up there!

If I've got any authority in Hays, Mrs. Lake isn't going to pay this town a cent of license for showing, and if any man attempts to stop this show, then just put it down that he's got me to fight.

Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.

Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial.

Ignorance is not too dangerous. If you combine it with power, then this is a toxic mix.

In a Toyota, the cops don't think about stopping you so much.